Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill, in fact they're not a measure of anything other than public and open-source contributions.
Personally I try to keep all of my work as private as possible. There is no particular reason, I'm just a private person.
Do you really want to work for a company that measures competence based on pissing-contest and attention-whoring mentality?
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By getting you that job with people who put more value on falsifiable data than on actual skill.
Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill, in fact they're not a measure of anything other than public and open-source contributions.
Personally I try to keep all of my work as private as possible. There is no particular reason, I'm just a private person.
Do you really want to work for a company that measures competence based on pissing-contest and attention-whoring mentality?
"Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill..."
Exactly. Because they're falsifiable. I'd personally rather work for people who value skill, not falsifiable data.
right but many companies try to take a shortcut - they think the best measure of skill is github.
To be fair, it's hard to qualify "skill", so shortcuts are very tempting.